Kingston Coffee House April 21: Playlist & REPLAY
For Pete’s sake, we got the vinyl
The folk icon Pete Seeger was blacklisted from American network television and radio for over a decade during the McCarthy-era 1950s and 60s.
Targeted by House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1955, Seeger refused to name associates which led to a contempt of Congress conviction. We celebrate Pete Seeger’s music and activism on tonight’s show.
On Saturday April 26, local musicians will gather to honor Pete Seeger’s legacy at the Greenwich Odeum theater. The show is a benefit for the Rhode Island Folk Festival (RIFF)
- Comments on the show? Contact Mike Stevenson at [email protected]
Listen to The Kingston Coffee House below:
Audio available for 2 weeks after air date | Clip begins with final minutes of Matt Mania’s always-awesome show The Trip
Oh, the Summertime is Coming!
– Kate Rusby “Blooming Heather (Will Ye Go Lassie Go)” (trad) Awkward Annie
– Fairport Convention “Come All Ye” (R Thompson) Leige and Leif, 1969
– Laura Marling “Caroline Something” Live at Albert Hall 2026
– Altan “Dulaman” (trad) Island Angel, 1993
Johnny Cloherty harvesting seaweed (dulaman) near Carna, Co Galway. . Breathing seaweed fumes is good for health, research shows.
Precious Pete and a Pickup
– Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie “Circles” Precious Friend, 1981
– Avi Jacob “Pickup Truck” Preservation, 2018
“Eres Tú” Pope Leo
– Ry Cooder theme from “Paris Texas”
– Carla Morrison “Eres Tú” Déjenme Llorar 2012
– Rickie Lee Jones “Theme for the Pope” The Magazine 1984
– The Pogues “theme from The Good the Bad & the Ugly (Ennio Morricone)
If I Had a Hammer
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie concert recording Precious Friend, 1982:
– Arlo Guthrie “Run Come See Jerusalem” (Blind Blake)
– Pete Seeger “Old Time Religion” (trad/additional new lyrics P Seeger)
– Arlo Guthrie “Do, Re, Mi” (Woody Guthrie)
– Pete Seeger Wimoweh (Mbube) traditional
– Pete Seeger “Kissees Sweeter than Wine” (Seeger/Hays)
– Pete Seeger “If I Had a Hammer” (Seeger/Hayes)
Precious Friends Arlo & Pete
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics 1920-1950s **
– Kalama’s Quartet “Hilo March”
– Sam Ku West “Hawaiian Hula” (Huehue)
– Honolulu Players “Leilehua”
– Sol Hoopi “Lepe Ula Ula”
Woodstock Mountains – More Music From Mud Acres, 1977
– Jon Herald “Bluegrass Boy” (Herald)
– Artie Traum “Cold Front” (Traum)
– Jim Rooney “Sleep with One Eye Open” (Lester Flatt)
– Roly Salley “Killing the Blues” (Salley)
– Eric Anderson “Waiting For a Train” (J Rodgers)
– John Sebastian “Morning Blues” (trad)
– Artie Traum “Titanic” (Leadbelly)
from the film Straight to Hell (1987)
– The Pogues “Rake the Gates of Hell” (S MacGowan)
– The Pogues “If I Should Fall From the Grace of God” (S MacGowan)
– The Pogues “Rabinga” (S MacGowan)
Update from WRIU Radiothon 2026
– “Thank You Very Much” (from Scrooge 1970)
The legendary British Folk singer Sandy Denny died on this date in 1978. Maddy Prior: “It’s a tragedy that a talented person in the prime of her life such as Sandy, with so much love to offer, and so much good work done in the past, could come to such a sudden and tragic end. It’s a terrible waste.” Former Fairport Convention manager: “Sandy was one of the major English girl songwriters, because she wrote like an English person and not under an American influence. She was an unfulfilled talent.”
The Hobbledehoy Set (Remembering Sandy Denny)
– Fairport Convention “Farewell, Farewell” (aka, “Willy O’Winsbury”) Leige and Leif, 1969
– Fairport Convention “I’ll Keep It With Mine” (Dylan) What We Did On Our Holidays, 1968
– Fairport Convention “Ballad of an Easy Rider” (McGuinn/Dylan) Unhalfbricking 1969
– Bert Jansch “Wagoner’s Lad” (trad) Jack Orion 1966
– Bert Jansch “Backwater Slide” Jack Orion 1966
– Bert Jansch “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (E MacColl) Jack Orion 1966
– Altan “An Mhaighdean Mhara” (The Mermaid) (trad) Island Angel, 1993
– Altan “Jug of Punch” (trad) Island Angel, 1993
– Enya “Na Laetha Geal M’óige” (Eithne Ní Bhraonáin/Roma Ryan) Watermark, 1988
– Alexi Murdoch “Breathe” Time Without Consequence 2006
– Alexi Murdoch “All of My Days” Time Without Consequence 2006
Show Notes:
- Pete Seeger Tribute at Greenwich Odeum TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
- Breathing seaweed fumes good for health, research shows | story from The Irish Times
- Hot tubs, saunas and seaweed soaks on Ireland’s west coast | story from The Guardian
- The death of Sandy Denny | stories at Mainly Norfolk
- Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics 1920-1950s Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Originally released on Arhoolie Records.
- “I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.” | Read transcript of Pete Seeger HUAC testimony
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